Monthly Archives: November 2024

“To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection.  Though this be not the grace of nature, yet it is the nature of grace.  … Continue reading →

“I have no rest, but in a nook with the book.”  (Thomas a Kempis  1380-1471)

“It is by the high way of pride that sinners depart from God; and it is by the low way of humiliation that they return to Him.” (John Colquhoun; 1748-1827)

“It is but little that we can know of his works, but that little should teach us to be humble and to admire the divine power and goodness.  How great must that Being be who produced these immense globes out … Continue reading →

“Men will never find a remedy for their miseries until, forgetting their own merits by trusting to which they only deceive themselves, they have learned to take themselves to the free mercy of God.”  John Calvin; 1509-1564)

“Men’s crime and curse have been in looking for happiness in the possession of worldly wealth, power, grandeur and influence.”  (David Thomas  1813-1894)

“The Gospel of God concerns His Son.  The whole of it is comprised in the knowledge of Jesus Christ;  so that whoever departs one step from Him, departs from the Gospel.”  (Robert Haldane; 1772-1854)

“The pious man has no reason to prevent himself and others from seeing into his heart.  His strength is in God, and so he can lay open his weakness.”  (William S. Plumer; 1802-1880)

“So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing; meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.”  (Joseph Caryl  1647)

“Temptations, though for the present not joyous but grievous, are really part of the preparation for your inheritance.”  (John Lillie; 1869)